long run sunday

the plan today was a rendezvous with the owl, lulu and sara from sweat for our long run - between us the length varied from 90 mins to 2hrs. i had 2 hours but was quite willing to facilitate an early stop :)

so we did 1hr 40mins and think we covered aroun 15k in that time which was great. i felt pretty good and especially on the york rd hill that usually makes me huff and puff and want to stop. noice.

after that was the Sweat Christmas Picnic which was lovely. loads of food (an interesting blend of ultra healthy and ultra unhealthy - including choc wedges...) which was also lovely.

Sean had arranged a speaker William Tan (I think!) to come along. He is a wheelchair athlete, of Chinese origin but lived mainly in Singapore. He caught polio as a 2 year old but his family was quite poor and so he didn't have a wheelchair or even crutches and leg splints to start with. However, he grew and through determination ended up racing his first marathon in Singapore in an old hospital wheelchair. Pretty amazing, and since then he has done 60 marathons including 10 in 65 days - one of which was the antarctic marathon!!!! He was also a great speaker and on top of that the proceeds of his book go to charity. makes you think... lots of things in my life that i see as obstacles/barriers - a healthy dose of perspective is a beautiful thing. not much you can't change if you really want to.

ah - how good is sunday????